OLPC's focus is on development, funding and delivery of laptops to the least developed countries. The expectations for features, testing, support, logistics, delivery, IT and RF infrastructure (to name a few things) are widely different between schools in Rwanda and those in NYC (for example). We just don't have the man-power today to meet these expectations world-wide.
There are a number of partnerships that we are investigating that can help us by taking on some of these efforts themselves, but it will take time. Finding a 'sales' team is not the immediate problem to selling in the US. Kim On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Simon Schampijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Edward Cherlin wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > ... > >> Chris, Scott, and I are formulating a release strategy > >> for the next 8 or so months with detailed information about what we > >> hope to release in 4 months. It remains to be seen how the strategy > >> proposed by the Tech Team will be received by the sales team, the > >> deployment team, and by other interested parties; however, I am fairly > >> confident that, when presented, it will: > > ... > >> In its final form, it will also explain what feedback we have received > >> from sales & deployment. In its draft form, it will propose a > >> reasonable deadline for revisions based on new feedback from those > >> teams. > > ... > >> Michael > > > > Who are the sales team, apart from Nicholas? Is there a way for any of > > us to talk to them? I, OLPC Chicago, and others out here are working > > on Illinois HB5000, The Children's Low-Cost Laptop Act, which proposes > > to put laptops in up to 300 schools. It has passed the Illinois House > > and gone to the Senate. It needs amendments, and we are working with > > the Lieutenant Governor's office on this. We would like to coordinate > > our efforts with OLPC's. > > Which is the group providing input to the process from the eduction > point of view (educators, teachers, kids)? Is this feedback part of the > input from the deployment team? > > Thanks, > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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